Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-28

and took the "edge" off any. awkward
ness that might have been felt by
Melanie and Sir BrisCo, of whose secret
If secret il could be called-Lonsdsle
was as yet ignorant.
Melsnie remembered the half-uttered
hints of Miss Tremayne, and when Sir
Brlsco was lingering near her elder broth
er's chair, and talking to him in a kindly
and sympathetic manner, she could not
help asking her fl3nce if he knew tina
young lady
"Know Hilda Tremsyne? or course
do" said he, laughing. "Half the fellows
in the service know Hilda. knew her in
India"
81 met her at Chillington, and she
spoke much of you"
"Flattering. She used my Christian
name, | have no doubt"
"Qutte appropriated you, in fact"
"Girls of Hilda Tremayne's kind adopt
that style. She is now on visit not far
from here.
InGeed!"
eyes, she is at Oxford, with her uncle
there, 6 professor at Trinity"
He knew of this. How and when did
he come to know 1t? was Melanie's suspi-
clous thought. She disdsined to inquire;
yet the circumstance, or fact, though
openly acknowledged, annoyed and
piqued her, for Miss Tremayne enjoyed
the reputation OF beng dangerous.
Though apparently occupied with Regi-
n ) : loot, when Sir Brisco saw Melanie
2 So : young officer, though he knew
% IS =; OF their engagement, or had the
;: ; ;st suspicion that they were more
man ordinary acquaintance, he felt
little, but irrepressible emotion OF envy
and chagrin, as he thought of the gulf
his own sixty years and more opened De
tween himself and her.
It is Emerson who says that if we did
not find the reflection Of ourselves in the
eyes Of young people, we could not know,
perhaps, that the century CLOCK had
struck seventy instead OF twenty. Thus,
though Sir Brisco felt himself old, es-
pecially by comparison, he was by no
means disposed to finch from the task
If task it Wss-of winning Melanie, WHO
Just then looked SO charming in well
fitted light summer dress. which, being
without shawl or jacket, displayed the
outline Of ner shspely husband shoulders;
her hair, OF the richest brown, shaded by
g most piqusnte hat, while her long gloves
being Off, revealed the whiteness Of her
slender hsuds and tapering arms.
Considering what had passed between
them before st the1 lawn-tennis party and
elsewhere, there was something decided
ly awkward IN their meeting again, uuder
any circumstances. Both felt this, out
Melanie had all e woman's delicscy and
tact, and the Osronet's mature years en-
abled him 10 control his features and
emotions better than younger man
might have done, and this impaired q
certain GOODNESS and confidence to the
bearing of Melanie.
$50 you have quite forgiven US for
trespassiDg, Notwithstanding that ter
rible board, with its threats about prose-
cution and being shot?" she said, with a
playful laugh.
"You have the right to roam over and
use at your pleasure every acre of Ravens
bourne Hall" said he, gsllartly.
| Thanks"
eyes," he continued, in low voice,
Gas Jsnins says-sfter ali, the right divine
of beauty is the only one s Bri.on ought
to acknowledge, and a pretty woman the
| only tyrant he is not authorized TO re-
! sist.n
| Melanie laughed egain-, IS she slipped
her tea-but less easily; mis- compliments
and love making were always oldfash-
Toned, too direct. and somewhat on stills.
And now, the Hussar having contrived
TO appropriate Amy Brendon, the poor
occupant o. the Bsth-chair YVES left for &
! little time TO himself.
! Horace Muser4ve was slender, straight,
and certa!nly rather aisIiug uisnad-louk-
ing, with a decided light cavalry air
about him. In face he was regular fea-
tured, deeply bronzed by the Egyptian
sun, close-shaven, with heavy, dark
mustache shading we'll cut mouth.
Moreover, he had earnest, honest and
handsome eyes, with not an atom Of the
fashionable and cultivated air of bore
dom, so often affected by the blase Eng
fish "softy." Horace was too genuine q
soldier for that, and contrived within a
short space to say some very pleasing
! things to little Amy, Eccssioning q mo-
'mentary lifting Of her soft eyes OF hazel
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